Noctilucent clouds from the cockpit

We've seen pictures of noctilucent clouds from earth. And we've seen noctilucent clouds from space. Jared Eicher captured them on June 12 with an intermediate height of 12 kilometers, when I was flying over the North Pacific ocean.

"As an airline pilot, I can see the sky from this angle, which is available to few. I was lucky enough to see from a height, as the Aurora dances in the solar wind as a rain of stars looks like without earthly interference, and yesterday East of the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula, the sky filled with silver clouds," — said the photographer.

"We were flying in a northerly direction when I spotted them ahead in the twilight of the midnight sun. The closer they became brighter and covered a large part of the sky, and behind them shone a Capella — the brightest star in the constellation Auriga. The view was simply stunning."

Noctilucent clouds — the high-altitude clouds on Earth. They are formed in the mesosphere, on the edge of space, at a height of 83 km. The water vapor flow in the warm season rises up to the sky, where the water kristallizuetsya around the particles of meteoric smoke.

Record low temperatures in the mesosphere this year contributes to their formation.

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